Series:

Tips and Traps

13 total works

Cover of Tips & Traps When Building Your Home
America's No. 1 real estate expert shows you how to build the home of your dreams from the ground up! You've done it! You've decided to take the plunge and build your dream house. how hard could it be - just build a house with everything you've always wanted in it - simple, right? Wrong! When designing and building their own home, many people fall into a minefield of mistakes that can cost them time and money. There are countless decisions to make and questions to answer before your vision can become a reality. Do you know what to look out for? Should you hire an architect or should you buy stock plans? Do you have what it takes to act as your own general contractor? What are the different types of building materials available and what are their advantages and disadvantages? How do you finance the lot and the construction?Best-selling author of the popular "Tips and Traps" series, Robert Irwin now guides prospective homeowners through every step of the building process. Irwin shares his personal experiences and solid advice with detailed insider information on the in's and out's of home construction.
Whether you're building a vacation home or the house of your dreams, don't make another move without this valuable resource!

Cover of Tips and Traps When Selling a Home
Home owners planning to sell should look first to an unbiased source. Tips and Traps When Selling a Home provides the working knowledge home owners need to help minimize risks and get the return they deserve out of what is probably the most important investment they have ever made.

Cover of Tips and Traps When Negotiating Real Estate
His hugely popular Tips & Traps real estate books have helped steer thousands of buyers, sellers, and beginning investors through every kind of real estate investment imaginable. Now Bob Irwin, one of the field's top voices, is back to show real estate buyers, sellers, and small-scale investors how to master the negotiating skills needed to get the best deal possible in their real estate transactions. Using his patented tips and traps approach, Irwin carefully walks readers through 13 essential bargaining scenarios-from negotiating a cheaper mortgage and getting a better assessment, to negotiate out of foreclosure and winning the battle at closing. Along the way, the author shares hundreds of valuable tips on understanding motivation, creating winning arguments, and maximizing negotiating leverage.

Cover of Tips and Traps When Mortgage Hunting
Finding a mortgage these days often makes you feel like a stranger in a strange land. Fixed rates and ARMs ... Baloon payments and wrap-around financing ... SAMs and PLAMs.

Cover of Tips and Traps When Renovating Your Home
In this text, the author provides money-saving tips on how to avoid the perilous traps of home renovation, from how to decide whether or not to undertake the renovation, what kinds of renovation will be needed, creating a plan and getting ideas, finding a good contractor and when to save costs and when not to. The author will supply tips for owners of both new and old homes, as well as for homeowners who undertake renovations in order to sell their home.

Cover of Tips and Traps for New Home Owners
This is a comprehensive guide to protecting and increasing home investment value. The latest in the hugely popular "Tips and Traps" series, "Tips and Traps for New Home Owners" contains all the information you need to move in, financially operate, and successfully maintain your first home. From financial record keeping and obtaining insurance to surviving the move-in and ensuring home value, real estate expert Robert Irwin provides practical, real-world advice that shows ways to maximize investment expenditures, including minimizing taxes, timing refinancing, and more.

Cover of Tips & Traps When Mortgage Hunting, 3/e

WITH HUNDREDS OF MORTGAGES NOW AVAILABLE, HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THE ONE THAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU?

Congratulations! Chances are you're buying a new home or refinancing an old one and are now in the process of applying for a mortgage loan. Before making any decisions that could affect the next 30 years of your life, arm yourself with this edition of Tips & Traps When Mortgage Hunting.

There are so many loans now available for practically every situation. America's leading real estate authority, Robert Irwin, will help you cut through the confusion and find the mortgage that fits your needs and is right for your budget. If one of your biggest concerns is paying too high an interest rate, or shelling out excessive cash for closing costs, this book will save you money by showing you how to find the lowest rates available. In easy-to-understand language, Irwin explains...

  • When to use a mortgage broker and how to find the right one
  • How to use the latest technology to conduct a mortgage search online
  • How to shop for and lock in the lowest interest rate
  • How to avoid being denied a mortgage because of a credit problem

This clear and comprehensive guide will provide you with the most up-to-date information and insider tips to help you avoid the traps of mortgage hunting and find the right mortgage at the right,/p>

Cover of Tips & Traps When Buying A Condo, Co-op, or Townhouse
One third of all homes sold today are condos, co-ops, or townhouses. America's No.1 real estate expert shows what to watch for when buying one of them. Home ownership is still the American dream, but not everyone follows tradition by buying a detached one-family house. Condos, co-ops, and townhouses are increasingly popular alternatives nationwide. These "shared ownership" options have unique pluses and minuses, as Bob Irwin reveals in "Tips & Traps When Buying a Condo, Co-op, or Townhouse". Like other books in his best-selling "Tips & Traps" series, it's packed with targeted, reader-friendly advice. If you're a prospective buyer, Bob Irwin will show you how to: decide if shared ownership is right for you; read between the lines of bylaws; deal with homeowners associations; check out the seven warning signs of big trouble; handle disclosures and inspections; and much more.

Cover of Tips & Traps for Negotiating Real Estate, Third Edition
Fully revised and expanded, the classic guide to negotiating every aspect of any real estate transaction

Real estate guru Bob Irwin breaks down all the common negotiating "tips and traps" when it comes to buying and selling in real estate. Beginning with the golden rule of real estate--everything is negotiable--the all-new third edition of this easy-to-read guide helps homeowners and investors like you maximize profits by avoiding the common pitfalls standing in the way of getting the deal you want. Fully updated for real estate investors in any economic climate, this comprehensive guide delivers useful tools for every step along the way along with rock-solid advice for sellers and buyers on:

Getting a better price in a down market Negotiating a quick sale Dealing with reluctant lenders Keeping the upper hand when buying a foreclosed propertyTalking a seller into financing your purchase And more

Robert Irwin is a real estate broker, investor, and author. He is a regular guest on many radio and television programs as well as the author of more than 35 books on all aspects of real estate, including the McGraw-Hill bestselling Tips & Traps series, which has sold well over a million copies. Irwin lives in Westlake Village, California.

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Cover of Tips and Traps When Buying a Home
This guide to home buying points out tips and traps to consider when buying a home and advises on how to deal wtih brokers, inspectors and lawyers. It includes pertinent questions to ask and how to make an offer. It starts with two lists - the 15 most important buyer's tips and the 10 most significant buyers traps. This edition includes two new chapters - "New tips on home buying" and "Is now the right time to buy".

Cover of EBK Tips and amp; Traps for Getting Started

The practical, real-world guide to succeeding as an agent

Scared of starting a new career in real estate? Wondering if you have what it takes?

Don't worry! Robert Irwin's Tips and Traps for Getting Started as a Real Estate Agent answers all your toughest questions. Irwin helps you start your real estate career on the right foot, and presents proven, reliable guidance on every aspect of the profession.

This handy guide shows you how to get licensed and start making money immediately. It walks you through those first tough days and weeks on the job, helps you find a great mentor, and shares all the basics of the business-from listing and selling properties to conducting open houses and escrow.

Delivers the skills and tools you need to become a top-performing agent, including how to:

Manage your time for maximum efficiencyWork less and earn more by closing bigger dealsBring in more referrals so you can stop hunting for clientsTake home a bigger commission in every deal

Cover of Tips & Traps for Making Money in Real Estate
A guide to making money in residential property, showing readers how to buy, convert or improve a property to make a substantial profit. Using the same, easy-to-follow "Tips and Traps" format of his earlier works, Irwin shares a common-sense approach to capitalizing on real estate investment opportunities in single family homes, condos, co-ops, and even apartments. He defines the current rules for investing success, highlights the reasons for failure, and breaks new ground by explaining how new considerations, such as crime, gated communities, changing tenant-landlord relationships and zoning restructions impact investment decisions. Pratical tips and techniques are given on how to: navigate safely through the cash flow and tax maze; zero in on profitable properties close to home; convert a "live-in" home to an income-producing property; boost rental income with cost-effective improvement techniques; branch out into multiple dwelling owndership; and to decide when and how to opt out of a property to realize maximum gain.